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P. KLUG. APPARATUS FOR SMOOTHING AND HARDENING THREADS.

No. 488,267. Patented Dec. 20,1892.

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PAUL KLUG, OF ORIMMITZSOHAU, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR SMOOTHING AND HARDENING THREADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,267, dated December20, 1892.

Application filed August 4, 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PAUL KLUG, of Crimmitzschau, in the Kingdom ofSaxony, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatusfor Smoothing and Hardening Threads, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved apparatus for smoothing andhardening threads by the action of dry steam.

It consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointedout in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinalsection of myimproved apparatus. Fig. 2 an end view thereof. Fig. 3 ahorizontal section on line M, M, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 a vertical section online N, N, Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section on line 0, 0, Fig. 1.

The letter B represents a drum or other receptacle, having a partitionD, that divides the drum off into a steam chamber 13 and a work chamberB The drum B may be tightly closed by a lid A. Steam is admitted into.

chamber B by a curved pipe or that also enters chamber B for the purposeof heating the same. This pipe a may be placed either near the top orthe bottom of the apparatus. Through the partition D pass the tubes E,that are free to slide horizontally backward and forward. These tubeshave perforations d, within chamber 13*.

The lid A is adapted to bear against the ends of tubes E, when the lidis closed, and

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to thus push the tubes further into the chamber B, against action ofsprings g. The ends f of tubes E within chamber B are perforated, andwhen these ends are thus projected into chamber 13', steam is admittedinto tubes E and consequently into chamberB But when the lid A isopened, the springs 9 push ends fof tubes E sufliciently out of chamberB,

to exclude the steam.

Above the tubes E, the chamber B is provided with the bars or open'fioorF, that support the work. A steam gage G surmounts drum B.

In use, the lid Ais opened, which will cause the tubes E to be pushedoutward and the steam to be excluded from chamber B The chamber 13 isnow filled with the threads to be treated and the lid A is closed tocrowd back pipes E and admit the steam in the manner described.

What I claim is:

The combination of receptacle B, divided into chambers B 13 with steampipe a, sliding perforated pipe E entering both chambers and with springg and lid A, bearing against pipe E, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

PAUL KLUG. Witnesses:

MAX MATTHAI, CARL BORNGRAEBER.

